11:14 Hud (Hud)

{ فَإِنْ لَمْ يَسْتَجِيبُوا لَكُمْ } على شيء من ذلكم { فَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّمَا أُنْزِلَ بِعِلْمِ اللَّهِ } [من عند الله] لقيام الدليل والمقتضي، وانتفاء المعارض. { وَأَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا هُوَ } أي: واعلموا أَنَّهُ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا هُوَ أي: هو وحده المستحق للألوهية والعبادة، { فَهَلْ أَنْتُمْ مُسْلِمُونَ } أي: منقادون لألوهيته، مستسلمون لعبوديته، وفي هذه الآيات إرشاد إلى أنه لا ينبغي للداعي إلى الله أن يصده اعتراض المعترضين، ولا قدح القادحين. خصوصا إذا كان القدح لا مستند له، ولا يقدح فيما دعا إليه، وأنه لا يضيق صدره، بل يطمئن بذلك، ماضيا على أمره، مقبلا على شأنه، وأنه لا يجب إجابة اقتراحات المقترحين للأدلة التي يختارونها. بل يكفي إقامة الدليل السالم عن المعارض، على جميع المسائل والمطالب. وفيها أن هذا القرآن، معجز بنفسه، لا يقدر أحد من البشر أن يأتي بمثله، ولا بعشر سور من مثله، بل ولا بسورة من مثله، لأن الأعداء البلغاء الفصحاء، تحداهم الله بذلك، فلم يعارضوه، لعلمهم أنهم لا قدرة فيهم على ذلك. وفيها: أن مما يطلب فيه العلم، ولا يكفي غلبة الظن، علم القرآن، وعلم التوحيد، لقوله تعالى: { فَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّمَا أُنْزِلَ بِعِلْمِ اللَّهِ وَأَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا هُوَ }

ثم قال تعالى فإن "لم يستجيبوا لكم" أي فإن لم يأتوا بمعارضة ما دعوتموهم إليه فاعلموا أنهم عاجزون عن ذلك وأن هذا الكلام منزل من عند الله متضمن علمه وأمره ونهيه "وأن لا إله إلا هو فهل أنتم مسلمون".

The Messenger grieving by the Statements of the Polytheists, and His Gratification

This statement of Allah, the Exalted, to His Messenger comforted the worries that the polytheists were causing him due to their statements directed towards him. This is just as Allah says about them,

وَقَالُواْ مَا لِهَـذَا الرَّسُولِ يَأْكُلُ الطَّعَامَ وَيَمْشِى فِى الاٌّسْوَاقِ لَوْلا أُنزِلَ إِلَيْهِ مَلَكٌ فَيَكُونَ مَعَهُ نَذِيراً - أَوْ يُلْقَى إِلَيْهِ كَنْزٌ أَوْ تَكُونُ لَهُ جَنَّةٌ يَأْكُلُ مِنْهَا وَقَالَ الظَّـلِمُونَ إِن تَتَّبِعُونَ إِلاَّ رَجُلاً مَّسْحُوراً

(And they say: "Why does this Messenger eat food, and walk about in the markets. Why is not an angel sent down to him to be a warner with him" Or; "(why) has not a treasure been granted to him, or why has he not a garden whereof he may eat" And the wrongdoers say: "You follow none but a man bewitched.") 25:7-8 Thus, Allah commanded His Messenger and guided him to not let these statements of theirs grieve his heart. Allah directed him to not let these statements prevent him, or deter him from calling them to Allah, both day and night. This is as Allah said,

وَلَقَدْ نَعْلَمُ أَنَّكَ يَضِيقُ صَدْرُكَ بِمَا يَقُولُونَ

(Indeed, We know that your breast is straitened at what they say.) 15:97 Allah says in this verse,

فَلَعَلَّكَ تَارِكٌ بَعْضَ مَا يُوحَى إِلَيْكَ وَضَآئِقٌ بِهِ صَدْرُكَ أَن يَقُولُواْ

(So perchance you may give up a part of what is revealed unto you, and that your breast feels straitened for it because they say...) The meaning here is that he (the Prophet ) may be compelled to give up the Message due to what they (the polytheists) say about him. However, Allah goes on to explain: "You (Muhammad) are only a warner and you have an example in your brothers of the Messengers who came before you. For verily, the previous Messengers were rejected and harmed, yet they were patient until the help of Allah came to them."

An Explanation concerning the Miracle of the Qur'an

Then Allah, the Exalted, explains the miracle of the Qur'an, and that no one is able to produce its like, or even bring ten chapters, or one chapter like it. The reason for this is that the Speech of the Lord of all that exists is not like the speech of the created beings, just as His attributes are not like the attributes of the creation. Nothing resembles His existence. Exalted is He, the Most Holy, and the Sublime. There is no deity worthy of worship except He and there is no true Lord other than He. Then Allah goes on to say,

فَإِلَّمْ يَسْتَجِيبُواْ لَكُمْ

(If then they answer you not,) Meaning, that if they do not come with a reply to that which you have challenged them with (to the reproduction of ten chapters like the Qur'an), then know that it is due to their inability to do so. Know (that this is a proof) that this is the speech revealed from Allah. It contains His knowledge, His commands and His prohibitions. Then Allah continues by saying,

وَأَن لاَّ إِلَـهَ إِلاَّ هُوَ فَهَلْ أَنتُمْ مُّسْلِمُونَ

(and that there is no God besides Him! Will you then be Muslims)

Then if they that is those on whom you call for assistance do not answer you know this address is to the idolaters that it has been revealed enwrapped only in God’s knowledge not as an invention of lies against Him and that an is softened in other words understand it as annahu there is no god save Him. Will you then submit? after this definitive argument; in other words ‘Submit!’

The reason is that they were first asked to bring ten Surahs. They failed to do so. Then, to make their inability look more pronounced, it was said in the verse of Surah al-Baqarah quoted above: If you take the Qur'an to be a word of man, then, you too, bring no more than just one Surah being the like of it. But, despite this challenge of the Qur'an, made so easy for them, they could do nothing. It stood proved that the Holy Qur'an was a miracle, and the Word of Allah without any doubt. Therefore, at the end, it was said: , that is, 'would you now believe and obey, or would you prefer to remain heedless as before?'